Rich wrote:
It would be better if we just setup sourceforge with fractint using some license that's more permissive than the GPL. Then we could do the same thing on sourceforge and wouldn't have to setup anything weird.
Why does the license have to be more permissive than GPL? GPL is fine for sourceforge.
Can't we be covered under the X Window System license?
Strictly speaking, migrating the license means contacting all the users which is possible. However, practically, I really doubt that anyone cares. We just risk someone objecting. There is some code that really isn't ours that we'd have to do some research to change the license. I always assumed that the current DOS version would have the old "license" forever, but any significant port that massaged all the code would at the same time change the license. I always thought that GPL was most in the spirit of the old license - OK to use the code in another project with the same license. Tim